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Mortuary Dialogues

Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities
Buch | Hardcover
262 Seiten
2016
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-171-8 (ISBN)
123,45 inkl. MwSt
Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through its set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral persons and community amid modernity, and its enormous transformations.
Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its enormous transformations. The book’s key concept, “mortuary dialogue,” describes the different genres of talk and expressive culture through which people struggle to restore individual and collective order in the aftermath of death in the contemporary Pacific.

David Lipset is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota.

List of Figures and Tables



Foreword

Shirley Lindenbaum



Acknowledgements

Map



Introduction: Mortuary Ritual, Modern Social Theory and the Historical Moment in Pacific Modernity

Eric K. Silverman and David Lipset



PART I: TENACIOUS VOICES



Chapter 1. Fearing the Dead: The Mortuary Rites of Marshall Islanders’ amid the Tragedy of Pacific Modernity

Laurence M. Carucci



Chapter 2. Into the World of Sorrow: Women and the Work of Death in Maori Mortuary Rites

Che Wilson and Karen Sinclair



Chapter 3. Death and Experience in Rawa Mortuary Rites, Papua New Guinea

Doug Dalton



Chapter 4. The Knotted Person: Death, the Bad Breast and Melanesian Modernity among the Murik, Papua New Guinea

David Lipset



Chapter 5. Mortuary Ritual and Mining Riches in Island Melanesia

Nicholas A. Bainton and Martha Macintyre



PART II: EQUIVOCAL VOICES



Chapter 6. Finishing Kapui's Name: Birth, Death and the Reproduction of Manam Society, Papua New Guinea

Nancy C. Lutkehaus



Chapter 7. Transformations of Male Initiation and Mortuary Rites among the Kayan of Papua New Guinea

Alexis T. von Poser



Chapter 8. Mortuary Failures: Traditional Uncertainties and Modern Families in the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea

Eric K. Silverman



Chapter 9. Everything Will Come Up Like TV, Everything Will Be Revealed: Death in an Age of Uncertainty in the Purari Delta, Papua New Guinea

Joshua Bell



Afterword: Mortuary Dialogues in Pacific Modernities and Anthropology

David Lipset, Eric K. Silverman and Eric Venbrux



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 526 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Trennung / Trauer
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-78533-171-X / 178533171X
ISBN-13 978-1-78533-171-8 / 9781785331718
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